End-gate



J. J. McCULLOCH.

END GATE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1920.

JOHN J. MCGULLOGH, OCE POI/LEROY, IOWA.

END-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 3,865,882, Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Application filed March 20, 1920. Serial No. 367,573.

T 0 all w hom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. MoCULLooH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pomeroy, in the county of Calhoun and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful improvements in End-Gates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in end gates for wagons and it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device of this general character which may be readily applied and which can be effectively locked in closed position the same being an improvment on the form of end gate disclosed in my pending application Serial No. 224,280, filed March 23, 1918.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a gate of this general character comprising two relatively movable sections and wherein one of the sections is provided with means operating independently of the remainder of the sections for holding said sections in closed position.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved gate whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, 1 will now proceed to describe the same with reference tothe accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in elevation, with portions broken away, of an end gate constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention and in applied position;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view taken through the lower portion of the device as illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section illustrating the means carried by a side wall of the wagon box for holding the end gate in applied position;

Fig. 4 is a view, enlarged, partly in section and partly in elevation, illustrating one of the swinging latches carried by the lower section of the end gate in locking position;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in front elevatpion of the structure illustrated in Fig. 4; anc

F g. 6 is a fragmentary view partly in section and partly in top plan of the structure shown in Fig. 5. l As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, B denotes the tail portion of a wagon box and the opposed faces of the side walls of sald box adjacent the rear end thereof are provlded with the vertically disposed cleats 1. Secured to the opposed faces of the cleats 1 and extending entirely therealong are the metallic straps or plates 2 provided with the outwardly directed hook members 3, 3 and 3*, for a purpose which w1ll hereinafter be more particularly referred to.

My improved end gate, as herein disclosed, comprises two sections A and A, having their closed marginal portions hingedly connected, one to the other as indicated at 4, whereby said sections are capable of independent relative movement and especially as relates to the lower section A. The gate when in applied position, abuts against the strips 5, overlying the opposed faces of the straps or plates 2, and at a predetermined point inwardly of the outer longitudinal margins of said straps or plates 2.

Secured to the outer face of the section A of the gate, at the upper corners thereof are the plates 6 which extend beyond the vertical margins of the gates, and the extended portion of each of said plates is provided with a vertically disposed slot 7, through which is adapted to be directed a hook member 3. By this means the upper section A of the gate is effectively supported in applied position and may be readily applied or removed in accordance with the occasions of practice.

Secured to the outer face of the lower section A of the gate at the upper corners thereof are the plates 6 extending beyond the vertical margins of said section and the extended portions thereof are provided with the vertically disposed slots 7 through which the hook members 3 are adapted to extend when the section A is in closed position.

The lower marginal portion of the section A adjacent each vertical margin there of has extending outwardly therefrom a pair of bearings 8 alined transversely of the body B when the gate is in applied position and rotatably supported by said bearings is a rod or shaft 9. The outer end of the shaft is provided with a rock arm 10 terminating in a laterally and outwardly-connected extension 11, which is adapted to engage .the upstanding point a of the hook member 3 for holding the lower section A in closed position.

The opposite end portionof1theshaft-8- is provided with the arm or lever 12 which affords means for imparting the requisite 1 rotation or rocking movement through ='the shaft 9, The arm or lever 12 by contact with the section-A of'the'gate limits the downward movement of the arm'or'lever l2 and-also oftherock arm 10. As is particu larly illustrated in Fig. 4, it is to'be noted l that such .arm or lever 12 is arcuate and bowed lna direction away from the section A when theleveror arm 12 lsin its lower- {most position so that the same may 'be readily grasped by the operator when it is desired to swing the arm or lever 12 upwardly toe-fleet a releasebfthe gate section A. V

Mlynimproved ends gate astherein disclosed is particularly adapted for-use in the hauling oflgrainwor similar material and when the endigate-isin applied positionit is-tobe noted that leakage'or'escapeoflthe load is eliectually prevented; By rendering the 'lockingmeans as afforded by-the-shaftsQ and their concomitant parts inoperative 'b throwing the-arms or levers 12 upwardly, the lower section A -may be readily swung into an openposition independently-of the section A asthe neeessities'of practice may require.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that anend gate constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly 'well adapted for use by reason 7 of the convenience and facility with whichit maybeassembled and operatedzand it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of-some change and modification without departing from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish'to'be understood as limiting myself to theyprecise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my claimed. 7

:I claim':- 7

The combination with a wagon box, plates carried by the side walls*thereof,'at=the tail of:the-bo-x, an end agate comprisingtwo pivotally connected sections, one of said sections constituting an upperzs'ection and=the invention except as hereinafter otherof said-sections constituting a lower 1 section, plates secured to th-e'upper portion of-each section, saidrplates 'extendingbeyond the vertical rm-arginso'f said sections and having a vertically disposed slot in theprotruding iportions, said slots being in vertical alinement, hook members extending outwardly from the :plates 'and coacting with the slo'ts,- a' third hook member 1 on each plate and in vertical alinement with the aforementioned hook member, the lower hook :mem- :bers having 'a :greater distance between the hook portiony and the ;p'lat e :than the upper hook members, and holding means carried by the lower portion of thelower; section andrcoacting with-the flower-hook members, 5

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature in the :presence -of two witnesses.

, aonnza'iireournoon. Witnessesi -J. L. MORRIS, Hnnnrdnnssnn. 

